General notes on South Pacific island groups
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-81- Kandavu: 'Challenger'. Mathuata: Layard. Mokongai: Ovalau: Taveuni: Liardet; Layard. Vanua Levu: Layard; Williamson. Wakaia: Layard, etc. Urodynamis taitensis taitensis (Sparrman). (t.l., not mentioned) Mokongai: Layard. Ovalau: Peale (May); Layard. Wakaia: Layard (saw it in mid September). Peale's bird, Eudynamys cuneicauda (type locality Ovalau, in May) may be different. Striges. ?Asio, species. Layard saw a species of this genus (see P.Z.S., 1876, 391, and Ibis, 1876, 393, note b.); probably the wide- ranging short-eared owl. = Tyto longimembr? Tyto alba lulu (Peale). (t. l., Fijis and Samoa.) Fijis generally: Peale, etc. Ovalau: Peale. Taveuni: Layard (breeding). Viti Levu: Williamson; Bahr.